[Info-vax] Fortran

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pu45a6$vhd$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> Personally, my perspective is that the only path forward for VSI is x86, 
> for now, and any efforts on VAX, Alpha, and that sinking ship detract 
> from what they need to be doing.

Right.

> And why do so?  Once VMS is running on x86, most should be able to adopt 
> that platform and use all the new goodies from VSI.  

Right.

> Forget backward 
> compatibility.  Forget clustering with older platforms.  (Looking at you 
> Phillip).  It's not worth the effort.  Any efforts in that direction 
> lessen the "new goodies" from VSI.

VSI has said that they will support mixed Alpha/x86 clusters for 
migration (though it might have to be a VSI version of VMS on Alpha).  
Have they changed that?  If this is not supported, it will be much 
HARDER to move to x86.  Nothing like HBVS for moving data to newer 
technology (have done so several times).